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Art & alchemy
- Title
- Art & alchemy / edited by Jacob Wamberg.
- Publication
- Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 297 p.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Art and alchemy
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface / - - Introduction / Jan Backlund ; Jacob Wamberg - - Matter/ 1. The philosophical nature of early western alchemy: the formative period c.1150-1350 / Askel Hanning - - 2. A stone and yet not a stone: alchemical themes in north Italian quattrocento landscape imagery / Jacob Wamberg - - 3. The material ethereal: photography and the alchemical ancestor/ Laurie Dahlberg - - Gender / 4. Fluctuating identities: gender reversals in alchemical imagery / M.E. Warlick - - 5. Artists, alchemists and mannerists in courtly Prague / Sally Metzler - - 6. Guilt or gold: alchemy and prostitution in Nineteenth-century Paris / Elizabeth K. Menon - - 7. The Paracelsian magus in German art: Joseph Beuys and Rebecca Horn / Urszula Szulakowska - - Collections / - - 8. Alchemy in the ampiththeatre: some considerations of the alchemical content of the engravings of Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheare of Eternal Wisdom (1609) / Peter Forshaw - - 9. Alchemy and its images in the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation / Lloyd DeWitt ; Lawrence M. Principe - - 10. Convention and change in Seventeenth-century depictions of alchemists / Jane Russel Corbett - - Notes on contributors / - - Index
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-1357
- ISBN
- 8763502674
- 9788763502672
- LCCN
- 2006283947
- OCLC
- 69733887
- Title
- Art & alchemy / edited by Jacob Wamberg.
- Imprint
- Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Wamberg, Jacob.Fisher Collection.
- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-1357